{"id":1249,"date":"2017-06-06T13:40:04","date_gmt":"2017-06-06T18:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=1249"},"modified":"2017-06-08T14:21:33","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T19:21:33","slug":"retro-scan-chuck-e-cheese-tokens-and-tickets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/1249\/retro-scan-chuck-e-cheese-tokens-and-tickets","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan ]<\/span> Chuck E. Cheese Tokens and Tickets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/pizza_time_tokens_front_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/pizza_time_tokens_front_small.jpg\" alt=\"Front of Chuck E. Cheese Pizza Time Theatre Tokens Scan 1980 1982 1983\" class=\"centered\"\/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>Five early 1980s Pizza Time Tokens from Benj&#8217;s Collection<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Chuck E. Cheese&#8217;s Pizza Time Theatre launched 40 years ago last month &#8212; on May 16, 1977.  To celebrate the anniversary, I wrote a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/40425172\/robots-pizza-and-magic-the-chuck-e-cheese-origin-story\">long feature about the origins of the pizza chain<\/a> for FastCompany that they published last week.<\/p>\n<p>While researching the article, I recalled my childhood token collection (pseudo numismatic, as they say) that likely had a few vintage Chuck E. Cheese specimens.  After checking, sure enough, I found five authentic Pizza Time game tokens dated from the years 1980, 1982, and 1983.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/pizza_time_tokens_back_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/pizza_time_tokens_back_small.jpg\" alt=\"Back of Chuck E. Cheese Pizza Time Theatre Tokens Scan 1980 1982 1983\" class=\"centered\"\/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>The reverse side of the tokens seen above &#8212; In Pizza We Trust<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>They were in pretty grody shape, replete with corrosion on their presumably brass finishes.  I wanted to scan some for the article, so I shined them up with Brasso, and here they are.<\/p>\n<p>While I was looking for the tokens, I happened upon my vintage game ticket collection (yeah, I like to collect, ok?).  Of course, there were three vintage Chuck E. Cheese tickets in there, which can be seen below:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/pizza_time_tickets_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/pizza_time_tickets_small.jpg\" alt=\"Back of Chuck E. Cheese Pizza Time Theatre Tickets Scan Early 1980s\" class=\"centered\"\/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>Pizza Time tickets that &#8220;may be redeemed at Jasper&#8217;s General Store&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>All of these artifacts came from a local Pizza Time Theatre located on Wake Forest Rd. in Raleigh, NC during the very early 1980s.  I think it was there from about 1980 to 1983 or 84.  I remember going there as a kid, being mystified by the robots and terrified by the man in the Chuck E. Cheese walk-around costume.<\/p>\n<p>At that time, Pizza Time was unlike any other restaurant experience, and I count myself fortunate to have experienced it during its original run.  To learn more about its history, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/40425172\/robots-pizza-and-magic-the-chuck-e-cheese-origin-story\">check out my article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><center><em>[ From Original Pizza Time Tokens (1980, 1982, and 1983) and Tickets (early 1980s) ]<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic:<\/strong> Tell us your earliest memories of Chuck E. Cheese and Showbiz Pizza.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five early 1980s Pizza Time Tokens from Benj&#8217;s Collection Chuck E. Cheese&#8217;s Pizza Time Theatre launched 40 years ago last month &#8212; on May 16, 1977. To celebrate the anniversary, I wrote a long feature about the origins of the pizza chain for FastCompany that they published last week. While researching the article, I recalled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,27,26,9],"tags":[1135,65,139,56,57,60,59,58],"class_list":["post-1249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-game-info-and-history","category-regular_features","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-retrogaming","tag-1135","tag-65","tag-139","tag-chuck-e-cheese","tag-pizza-time-theatre","tag-retro-scan","tag-tickets","tag-tokens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1249"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1267,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249\/revisions\/1267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}